Monday, January 10, 2005
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Wake-up Call in the U.K.

According to this UPI report, a radical Islamist leader in the U.K. has called on British Muslims to join the jihad against the "global crusade camp." He says that the "covenant of security" that Muslims have enjoyed in Britain has been broken, and that they must now consider themselves at war.

"The response from the Muslims will be horrendous if the British government continues in the way it treats Muslims," he said, adding that suicide bombings were a possibility.

He called on Muslims to form a new coalition united behind al-Qaida with Osama Bin Laden as their leader...

Muslims are facing wars on two fronts, in Britain and abroad, he explained. Though they will live at peace in Britain should the government meet their demands, the fight will continue elsewhere in the Islamic world.

The article goes on to describe a conference held in London. Speakers praised the 9/11 hijackers as "men, real Muslim men." The Madrid attacks were called "beautiful." Moderate Muslims were referred to as "the enemy within." One woman encouraged parents to nurture their sons to be like Osama bin Laden.

Read the whole thing. Three reactions to this intolerable lunacy come to mind right off the bat - imprisonment, deportation, and exile. Unfortunately, those things may be a little too "civilized" for this crowd. If the message needs to be made a bit clearer, I hear there's a Tower nearby with all sorts of neat contraptions. (For a very well-reasoned and somewhat more temperate take on how to react to this kind of fanaticism, see here.)